Hunters & Collectors

The universe's most feared restaurant critic is on the hunt for the greatest meal of his life -- from a writer already compared to Vonnegut, Pynchon and Douglas Adams.

John Tamberlain is The Tomahawk -- the universe's most feared and famous food critic (though he prefers 'forensic gastronomer'). He's on the hunt for the galaxy's most secretive and exclusive establishment, Hotel Grand Skies: the Empyrean. A haven where the rich and famous retreat to bask in perfect seclusion. Where the waiters know their fish knife from their butter knife, their carotid from their subclavian artery, and are trained to enforce the house rules with brutal efficiency.

Blurring the lines between detective story, horror and sci-fi, Hunters & Collectors is a mesmeric trip into the singular imagination of M. Suddain. It is as if, at his freewheeling best, Kurt Vonnegut had been cast into the future and asked to re-imagine The Shining.

M. Suddain was born on a farm in New Zealand. When he was eight, he wrote a novella called Between & Beyond, about an explorer who travels between universes. He later earned a bachelor’s degree in film and worked as a graphic artist before becoming a successful journalist and satirist. He moved to London in 2008, where he wrote a radically expanded version of Between & Beyond. It was renamed Theatre of the Gods and published by Jonathan Cape in 2013. Hunters & Collectors is his second novel. He still lives in London. You can find him on most major social networks: @suddain.